Two low-cost science activity books “Activities in Life Sciences” (English) and “Science Experiments with Plastic Tongue Cleaners” (Hindi version: Plastic Jibhi se Vigyan ki Gatividhiyan) co-authored by Dr Lalit Kishore and Tushar Tamhane have been contributed to and included in the ‘Internet Archive: Digital Library[1]’ as ‘Community Texts’.
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Activities from the Hindi version (Translation by Dr. OP Kulhari) have been used by Education-for-All Project 'Lok Jumbish' in 1990s implemented in Rajasthan State of India.
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